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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
Bill doesn't even have a concept of philanthropy, and he's not 'giving the wife
something to do'.
This is Melinda all the way. She said "your image stinks, gimme the
checkbook and let me fix it for ya"... the foundation was the result.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT |
The projects I've seen are actually
geared towards helping large
numbers of people at a low
cost.
On the surface of what's
generally reported, yes, that does appear to be the impression one
gets.
However, every project I've taken a deep look into (as much as the
public is able to) have come with strings attached. Examples:
We'll help
you bring grain to the poor, here's some R&D money, we own the
patents.
We'll help you cut some of your education costs.... here's our
donation of computers with Microsoft software installed.
That's not
philanthropy. That's future investing with an eye to cornering
markets.
I am willing to be proven wrong though. As a result, I'll make
you a deal:
If the Gates Foundation ever donates those grain patents to the
public and teaches the starving in 3rd World Countries how to best farm their
own food so the individuals become independent: I'll admit my expectation was
totally wrong.
And note: I do mean truly independent where they can choose
non-MS products from which to do their farming while freely practicing any Gates
Foundation patents.
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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
> There's not really much else you can do with excess money.
I can think of a number of uses:
Design a decent electric car, AS an electric car, not as a
gas-engine car retrofitted with an electric motor.
Design a decent aerospace-plane for low-orbit insertions,
one that operates more like a 747 than a rich-government's-toy.
Start up a really major solar-panel manufacturing capacity
in the US.
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